Comments on: Building a Massively Multibooting Machine http://bytebaker.com/2006/05/19/building-a-massively-multibooting-machine/ Computer Science isn't a science and it's not about computers Tue, 15 May 2012 16:22:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Azmeen http://bytebaker.com/2006/05/19/building-a-massively-multibooting-machine/#comment-3 Fri, 19 May 2006 11:30:02 +0000 https://xcomputers.wordpress.com/2006/05/19/building-a-massively-multibooting-machine/#comment-3 6 OSs… wow. Although technically you’re really installing just 3 OSs. The first four are just distros of the GNU/Linux OS. In fact all of them could use a single /boot partition as the kernel configuration can (and should) be exactly the same.

The most I did was

1) Linux
2) OpenBSD
3) Windows XP
4) Windows Server 2003 (a 180 day trial CD I got from a seminar)

In my case I had to make use of bootpart to enable Windows to load my other OSs’ boot images. I feel that this shouldn’t be a problem on your proposed multiboot setup since both lilo and grub can handle the native filesystems for your listed OSs.

All the best! Looking forward to hearing your success story.

]]>